A felicitous debut at Carnegie Hall: Nikita Mndoyants

By Edward Sava-Segal, 10 June 2017

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“Mndoyants’ playing was quite mercurial, capturing the music’s unbridled imagination.”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Weill, New York City on 7 June 2017

Beethoven, 6 Bagatelles for piano, Op.126

Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze, Op.6

Mndoyants, Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 8 in B flat major, Op.84

Nikita Mndoyants, Piano

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

Johnston’s Tavener the highlight for the Brighton Philharmonic

Nick Boston, 29th March

Warm Vaughan Williams and energetic Richter and Vivaldi from MacGregor and the BPO strings, with an astonishing performance of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil from Guy Johnston the highlight.

****1

The Fibonacci Quartet give a compelling concert in Sheffield

Phil Parker, 28th March

The Fibonacci Quartet has been accumulating prizes and headlines like they’re going out of fashion, and this Music in the Round concert showed why.

****1

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

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